The Oct. 4 Tennessean reports on the award-winning volunteer activities of a recent Belmont University graduate in a literacy tutoring program:

For the past three years, Ann-Marie Smiley has served as a tutor and site supervisor for Belmont University’s literacy tutoring initiative with the YMCA Fun Company at Carter-Lawrence Magnet Elementary School. She also served as chairwoman of the annual Belmont Family Literacy Day for three years. For this work, Smiley was nominated for the 2003 Mary Catherine Strobel Award for Youth Volunteer of the Year.
Smiley, who graduated from Belmont in May with a music education degree, has been a driving force behind the Belmont Family Literacy Day. The event is held each spring when more than 150 Belmont students, faculty and staff invite children and their parents to come read books and celebrate the joys of reading and the importance of literacy.

NashvillePost.com and The Tennessean both cover the launch of Belmont University’s first faculty-authored weblog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, by Dr. Jeff Cornwall, holder of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Massey Graduate School of Business.
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Belmont University’s School of Nursing will share $1 million in scholarship aid from HCA Inc. as part of the hospital company’s settlement of a long-running medical billing lawsuit, accroding to today’s Tennessean. Belmont will recieve one third of that sum, with two other Nashville schools’ nursing programs also sharing in the settlement. The Tennessean reports the payments would stem from HCA’s settlement of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville by several hundred health and welfare funds throughout the country that primarily provide health and retirement coverage to union members. The settlement must be approved by the court.

Belmont University music business professor Don Cusic is quoted in an Associated Press story today about the start of the Music Row Murder trial today in Nashville.